Re: mga.o version 3.0.x

[Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com>]

Thanks for your help. Downloaded drm-4.1.0.tar.gz, installed,
compiled (using TREE=...) and replaced the old mga.o with the new one. Direct rendering
works again on my G400 for both kernels 2.4.0 and 2.4.7  :-) 

Marcelo E. Magallon writes:
 > >> Svante Signell <svante.signell@telia.com> writes:
 > 
 >  > Do I have to download the whole (or parts of) XFree86 tree from
 >  > dri.sourceforge.net (or xfree86.org) and compile my own mga.o or is it
 >  > available from somewhere?
 > 
 >  In principle, yes, in practice, no.
 > 
 >  You can get the DRM sources for the 4.x releases currently present in
 >  Debian from http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/dri/, the files are
 >  called drm-4.0.3.tar.gz (for current testing) and drm-4.1.0.tar.gz (for
 >  current unstable).
 > 
 >  There's a debconf note that tells you about other sources (its priority
 >  is not particularly high, nor should it, so it seems a number of people
 >  are missing it and having trouble because of that).
 > 
 >  Provided that you have only a CD-ROM and no net access, there doesn't
 >  seem to be a way to get the DRI working in Debian currently.
 >  Theoretically, by the time of release, Debian will include kernel
 >  sources that can be actually used with the DRI modules it ships.
 >  That's a nice theory.  The drm sources in 2.4.7 are in sync with the
 >  ones present in the DRI CVS trunk, which are not in sync with the ones
 >  released with 4.1.0.
 > 
 > -- 
 > Marcelo             | DROP THE SCYTHE, AND TURN AROUND SLOWLY.
 > mmagallo@debian.org |         -- Dirty Death
 >                     |            (Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man)
 > 
 > 
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